Grafficity

Visual Practices and Contestations in Urban Space. Edited by Eva Shamiran Youkhana and Larissa Förster.

The volume investigates how graffiti oscillates between genuine subversiveness and a more recent commercialisation and appropriation by the (art) market. At the same time it looks at how graffiti and street art are increasingly used as an instrument to collectively re-appropriate the urban space and thus articulate different forms of belonging, ethnicity and citizenship. The focus lies on the role of graffiti in metropolitan contexts in the Spanish-speaking world and includes a glimpse at historical inscriptions in ancient Rome and Mesoamerica, as well as at the graffiti movement in Egypt. With contributions by Larissa Förster, Eva Youkhana, Martin Langner, Christiane Clados, Sascha Schierz, Tereza Ventura, Teobaldo Lagos Preller, Joaquín Barriendos, Sofía Carillo, Olaf Kaltmeier, Javier Abarca, Allan Gretzki and Mona Abaza. 316 Seiten mit 21 Farb- und 72 s/w-Abb., broschiert (Morphomata; Vol. 28/Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2015) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint